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SELECTIONS FROM THE<br/>
<span class=large>BOOK OF MOSES</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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(June—October 1830)
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God creates the heavens and the earth—All forms of life created—God makes man and gives him dominion over all else.
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And</span> it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 1: 30 (30, 36).">reveal</a> unto you concerning this <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Heaven.">heaven</a>, and this <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/2/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Moses 1: 8.">earth</a>; <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/2/1d" mark="d" type="C" title="D&C 76: 80; TG Record Keeping; TG Scribe; TG Scriptures, Writing of.">write</a> the words which I speak.  I am the Beginning and the End, the <sup>e</sup><a href="moses/2/1e" mark="e" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 14.">Almighty</a> God; by mine <sup>f</sup><a href="moses/2/1f" mark="f" type="A" title="Moses 1: 32; Abr. 4: 1.">Only</a> Begotten I <sup>g</sup><a href="moses/2/1g" mark="g" type="B" title="TG Creation; TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">created</a> these things; yea, in the beginning I <sup>h</sup><a href="moses/2/1h" mark="h" type="B" title="TG God, Creator; TG God, Works of.">created</a> the <sup>i</sup><a href="moses/2/1i" mark="i" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 1.">heaven</a>, and the earth upon which thou standest.
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And the earth was without <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 23 (23-25).">form</a>, and void; and I caused <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Physical.">darkness</a> to come up upon the face of the deep; and my <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/2/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/2/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 2; Abr. 4: 2.">moved</a> upon the face of the water; for I am God.
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And I, God, said: Let there be <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 88: 7 (6-13); TG Light.">light</a>; and there was light.
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And I, God, saw the light; and that light was <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 4; Abr. 4: 4.">good</a>.  And I, God, divided the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Light.">light</a> from the darkness.
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And I, God, called the light Day; and the darkness, I called Night; and this I did by the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 1: 32.">word</a> of my power, and it was done as I <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 33: 9; 2 Cor. 4: 6.">spake</a>; and the evening and the morning were the first <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/2/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 5.">day</a>.
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And again, I, God, said: Let there be a <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/6a" mark="a" type="E" title="See Abr., Fac. 2, fig. 4 concerning the firmament or expanse. See also:; Gen. 1: 6 (6-8); Moses 2: 14-18.">firmament</a> in the midst of the water, and it was so, even as I spake; and I said: Let it divide the waters from the waters; and it was done;
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And I, God, made the firmament and divided the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 9: 6; Abr. 4: 9 (9-10).">waters</a>, yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so even as I spake.
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And I, God, called the firmament <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/8a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The whole expanse around about the earth, its atmosphere, and beyond are generically here called “Heaven.” The same word is also used sometimes to refer to paradise, to the dwelling place of God, and to the kingdoms of glory.">Heaven</a>; and the evening and the morning were the second day.
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And I, God, said: Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Dividing of.">waters</a> under the heaven be gathered together unto <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 9; Abr. 4: 9.">one</a> place, and it was so; and I, God, said: Let there be dry land; and it was so.
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And I, God, called the dry land <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The whole sphere or any of its parts above the seas is called “Earth.”">Earth</a>; and the gathering together of the waters, called I the Sea; and I, God, saw that all things which I had made were good.
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And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 11 (11-12); Abr. 4: 11 (11-12).">grass</a>, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself upon the earth, and it was so even as I spake.
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And the earth brought forth grass, every herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself, after his <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 12.">kind</a>; and I, God, saw that all things which I had made were good;
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And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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And I, God, said: Let there be <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 104: 19.">lights</a> in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
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And I, God, made two great lights; the greater <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Light.">light</a> to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 16.">greater</a> light was the sun, and the lesser light was the moon; and the stars also were made even according to my word.
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And I, God, set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Astronomy.">sun</a> to rule over the day, and the moon to rule over the night, and to divide the light from the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Physical.">darkness</a>; and I, God, saw that all things which I had made were good;
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And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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And I, God, said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl which may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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And I, God, created great <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 21; Abr. 4: 21.">whales</a>, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and I, God, saw that all things which I had created were good.
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And I, God, blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 22 (20-25); D&C 45: 58; D&C 132: 63 (55-56, 63); Abr. 4: 22.">multiply</a>, and fill the waters in the sea; and let fowl multiply in the earth;
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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind, and it was so;
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And I, God, made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and I, God, saw that all these things were good.
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And I, God, said unto mine <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">Only</a> Begotten, which was with me from the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Firstborn.">beginning</a>: Let <sup>c</sup><a href="moses/2/26c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">us</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="moses/2/26d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Man, Physical Creation of.">make</a> man in our <sup>e</sup><a href="moses/2/26e" mark="e" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 26 (26-28); Moses 6: 9 (8-10); Abr. 4: 26 (26-31).">image</a>, after our likeness; and it was so.  And I, God, said: Let them have <sup>f</sup><a href="moses/2/26f" mark="f" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 26 (26-28); D&C 76: 111 (110-112); D&C 121: 37 (34-46); Moses 5: 1; Abr. 4: 26 (26-28).">dominion</a> over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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And I, God, created man in mine own <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Body of - Corporeal Nature.">image</a>, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him; male and female created I them.
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And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them: Be <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">fruitful</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/28b" mark="b" type="C" title="Moses 5: 2; TG Marriage, Fatherhood.">multiply</a>, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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And I, God, said unto man: Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which shall be the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 29 (29-30); Ps. 136: 25; D&C 104: 17 (15-18); Abr. 4: 29 (29-30).">meat</a>.
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And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein I grant life, there shall be given every clean herb for meat; and it was so, even as I spake.
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And I, God, saw everything that I had made, and, behold, all things which I had made were very <sup>a</sup><a href="moses/2/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 1: 31; Moro. 7: 12; D&C 59: 17 (16-20).">good</a>; and the evening and the morning were the <sup>b</sup><a href="moses/2/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 11 (8-11); Ex. 31: 17; Mosiah 13: 19; Abr. 4: 31.">sixth</a> day.
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